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i work on neo-tree.nvim, among other things.

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pynappo··on AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible
Yes, generics are better value, but at least from the big drugstores and pharmacies they still have clean design - they just make it clear what their active ingredient is in what dosage, mention the branded equivalent, and then put the standard drug label on it, and that's about it.

The worst generative AI posters and restaurant menus I'm seeing from newer small businesses do not instill the same feeling that I'm getting generic-like value. To keep with the drug analogy, they feel like the combo pills you find somewhere in the back of a gas station which combine 10+ random supplements to help with 20+ different symptoms. Especially for new restaurants where real reviews are limited, menus with terrible AI generated food drawings really give me the same ick - that they might not be providing any good value at all.

However, i do admit that part of this is also that i live in an area where there is tons of competition for most cuisines I'm interested in, so I can use menu quality as a differientiating factor in the first place. If enough places around me were using sloppy AI menus i would probably ignore it.

pynappo··on Hang on to Your Firefox
From my POV, an adblocker's perceived quality is primarily weighted on whether it can block visible ads without impacting performance. While uBO on firefox is a more capable blocker, I honestly don't browse enough sites to know one where uBOL provides a worse experience in this metric than uBO.

I prefer vivaldi's UX to firefox enough that i am willing to settle for technically-worse adblocking. If I notice this becoming practically-worse, I will consider switching.

pynappo··on It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell
Sure, theft still happens, but I don't see why home theft wouldn't be reduced by the presence of CCTV or other video surveillance.

CCTV doesn't work well when people feel like nobody is going to bother to check its footage (e.g. pocketing a $2 drink from a big-box department store). But when it comes to homes, there are much higher chances of captured footage being used and examined, so it may cause opportunistic burglars to look at other houses instead.

pynappo··on fx :Tiny, open, native coding agent.
been enjoying maki too. respects xdg spec (unlike pi), the ui is snappy and pretty much exactly what i want, and i like the choice to keep the lua API similar-ish to neovim.
pynappo··on Upper stage impacting the moon on 2026 August 5
I mean it fits, but i don't find the text size particularly usable for mobile

On vivaldi mobile on an android phone (with an approximately 6x3" display), i see this as the first line:

> On 2026 August 5, within a few minutes of 06:35 UTC, an upper stage (section) of a rocket used for a lunar mission will hit the

And for me, reading a 124 character wide line on a 3" wide screen (75mmish) is not particularly comfortable.

pynappo··on Hyprland 0.55 announced the switch to Lua for its config files
there are already converters online (i wrote a incomplete one as a neovim plugin for fun https://github.com/pynappo/hyprlang-to-lua.nvim) and reportedly LLMs work fine at it too. At the time i wrote my converter there was already a couple hundred configs i could search through on github to see what people did
pynappo··on LuaJIT 3.0 proposed syntax extensions
Off the top of my head, openresty, neovim, love2d
pynappo··on Show HN: Number Gacha, a gacha game distilled to its essence
Generally speaking I think the allure of modern-day gachas is providing a near-premier gaming experience (like paid RPGs, open-world games, etc.) while being free-to-play, at the cost of slowly encouraging you to spend a lot of time and/or money to get better characters in order to actually keep up with the end-game content and/or PvP side of the game.

If you commit to playing the gacha for an extended period of time, the system of:

- daily rewards that encourages you to play for a couple minutes each day to get enough currency to get good characters from the gacha

- newer characters being better than older ones (in visual design appeal and/or power-level)

- harder end-game content requiring better rosters of characters (or more grind)

- sales on the premium currency used to pull

- the ol' sunk-cost fallacy

all combine to encourage players to spend money over time

In this regard, the game in the post obviously does not have the scope of a game that actually costs money, and doesn't have the goal of getting you to spend money, but it does cover the grind and gacha part of pulling for different rarity characters and such.

pynappo··on 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop
Yeah onedrive is seriously annoying. It's nice when the free 15GB backup/sync for the desktop, pictures, and documents folder works (for people who put things there) but the way other MS products work with it seems user-hostile to me.

e.g. it took until 2025 for this RFC to be opened on moving PowerShell profiles and modules out of Onedrive: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell-RFC/pull/388. It should not be taking seconds for my powershell profile to load just because i have onedrive enabled by default.

I also had a non-technical friend recently get burned by a default MS Office setting where edited documents located in the OneDrive folder save directly to onedrive, and it only gets saved on disk when onedrive gets the new copy and uploads it back it to the user's disk. So if the MS office to onedrive integration fails your changes won't save. Apparently users have to enable a setting to first save to a folder on disk? That folder can even be the onedrive folder so onedrive will eventually sync it back up.

pynappo··on Games using anti-cheats and their compatibility with GNU/Linux or Wine/Proton
Overwatch 2 has a simplified endorsement system. It's just an optional thumbs up instead of endorsement for 1 of 3 reasons (roughly something like sportsmanship, good teammate, or good leader).

The avoid system is now more flexible. You have 3 pin slots for people you never really want to see on your team again, plus 12(?) regular avoid slots to avoid people for a week at a time like usual. In situations where too many avoid conflicts occur and the matchmaker struggles to create a match (e.g. high ELO), it will start to ignore people's avoid slots in order of (last regular avoid > first regular avoid > pin slots), i think.

pynappo··on The Temporal Dead Zone, or why the TypeScript codebase is full of var statements
> By crux you mean the 1 paragraph at the end where it mentions performance? That's basically a footnote to an article that spends the other 99% describing javascript variable hoisting.

Isn't that part still the crux of the article as it contains the answer to the title?

pynappo··on Dotter: Dotfile manager and templater written in Rust
chezmoi provides a handy table for features it and other dotfile managers have. I just use a bare git repo cause it's simple but i have wanted to have easier diffs between machines and secrets management at times.

https://www.chezmoi.io/comparison-table/

pynappo··on Neovim Pack
>Problem: > >New users must look for a plugin manager and figure out how to install it. > - Nvim documentation should be able to give a one-liner to install (non-builtin) plugin managers and plugins. > > Lack of a declarative way to specify plugins. > - Lets Nvim reason about dependency ordering / transitivity. > - Lets crawlers build a package index. > - [packspec](https://github.com/neovim/packspec) adds potential to leverage NPM tooling (and possibly infrastructure).

https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/20893#issuecomment-1...

pynappo··on Hidden interface controls that affect usability
For new cars, US/Canada since 2018, Japan/EU since 2022

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Backup_camera

pynappo··on VR Design Unpacked: The secret to Beat Saber's fun
It's explained 3-4 levels into the campaign, not the tutorial you linked

https://youtu.be/PgjSc8Y9Poc?t=608

pynappo··on Anubis saved our websites from a DDoS attack
> Arch Wiki is a high value target for scraping so they'll just solve the anubis challenge once a week. It's not going to stop them.

The goal of Anubis isn't to stop them from scraping entirely, but rather to slow down aggressive scraping (e.g. sites with lots of pages being scraped every 6 hours[1]) so that the scraping doesn't impact the backend nearly as much

[1] https://pod.geraspora.de/posts/17342163, which was linked as an example in the original blog post describing the motivation for anubis[2]

[2]: https://xeiaso.net/blog/2025/anubis/

pynappo··on Valve releases Team Fortress 2 code
Well, they released Artifact in 2018 (to poor reception), DOTA Underlords in 2019 (and stopped updating it after a while), and half life alyx in 2020.

https://store.steampowered.com/search/?sort_by=Released_DESC...

They also likely have another half-life game in the works, as mentions of half-life-esque things have popped up around their codebase (as published through updates of their existing source 2 games):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWlRkzwHLwI

pynappo··on Ask HN: How do you backup your Android?
aegis authenticator uses google's android backup system.
pynappo··on OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB
Apparently o3 scored about 25%

https://youtu.be/SKBG1sqdyIU?t=4m40s

pynappo··on What Is Vim?
Doing a quick search in the repo i see multiple issues where people report using vscodium but none of them seem to report any immediate breakage. If you're experiencing a problem with it, it is only in vscodium?
pynappo··on Only buy a magnetic keyboard for gaming
the article you linked measures the receiver latency at 2.8ms though. does the k100 use some higher power version of wireless when plugged in? I imagine it's just usb when plugged in.

Also the field75 he mentioned in the OP does tie that keyboard's wired latency:

https://www.rtings.com/keyboard/tools/table/152444

pynappo··on Only buy a magnetic keyboard for gaming
There's the Everest line of keyboards by MOUNTAIN that does that, although they've recently had very massive sales (like 60-70% off type stuff) so idk if the company's doing alright.
pynappo··on Imgpls – An extension to load Imgur images directly
Are you able to use imagus on the phone? I love imagus too, but the images in this app seem to convey that this is meant for opening imgur links on mobile.
pynappo··on Zed Editor automatically downloads binaries and NPM packages without consent
It's important to note that this isn't a dev response that is meant to directly address the issue in the OP. Someone else just saw that it was a dev comment in a related issue and linked it.

If you look at the linked thread the quote came from [1], the quote is actually answering a similar issue titled "Why are there nodejs files in my zed install". Judging by the response, the dev had interpreted the issue title as a "what does zed uses nodejs for" and not "why does zed downloads nodejs without informing the user" and answered accordingly.

There are more relevant links to PRs and comments further down the GitHub thread (the one in the OP) where the zed devs acknowledge that they are still thinking about how to best implement the UX for extensions downloading LSPs and whatnot.

[1]: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7054#issuecomme...

pynappo··on Anti-Cheat Expert: all your pixels are belong to us
I think it really is just that some cheaters don't wanna install a different OS, and my understanding is that there are still plenty of hacks on Windows so not much reason to change. Overwatch 2 for example has had a free undetected source-released cheat on Windows for months now (according to what I've heard on Reddit).

I believe Valorant and Roblox have had devs/employees state that supporting Linux isn't worth it for the small proportion of the player base vs the increased cheat risk as well, although feel free to take that with a grain of salt

pynappo··on Anti-Cheat Expert: all your pixels are belong to us
It can be hard to differentiate between insane aim and clever aim assistance

Wallhacks can be mitigated but can't be shut down completely. Valorant for example limits the information provided to clients based on pre-generated tile maps (for example, players in a tile won't have information about enemies on the other side of the map but will have information on the enemies on the adjacent tile within reasonable LoS) but wallhacks still exist because the LoS check has to be overly generous to account for ping and such

pynappo··on Creating a matchmaker for your multiplayer game
There's different levels of SBMM (skill-based matchmaking) though, most games nowadays have a choice between ranked (where the appeal is the well-matched games and the possibility of increasing your rank) and quick play (where the appeal is the low queue time and more casual play, and the matchmaker basically is making sure that the lobby is filled with players who are very roughly in the same skill range)

While I also have fond memories of pre-SBMM Halo/CoD from the 2000s, they're more focused on pure shooter mechanics rather forcing players to work together to win an objective, so doing well but losing still feels fine. I find SBMM is needed in more objective focused esport games like overwatch, because the game is designed such that it's harder to do well individually (and thus have any fun) if your teammates aren't doing well.

pynappo··on Save Team Fortress 2 (#savetf2)
I've seen it done with human observations instead of AI, e.g. for validating the skills of the best rhythm game players or the best speedrunners.

My perception (purely from personal gaming experience, to be fair) is that most esports games' existing anti-cheat solutions are good enough at suppressing obvious cheaters, so there's not enough benefit to adopting a system like this for the vast majority of players for the cost.

My understanding of TF2's problem is partially that it's easy to cheat, but unlike other games, it's also easy to cheat on multiple accounts simultaneously on the same machine, and there's not enough (if any?) enforcement to deter people from doing this.

pynappo··on What's New in Neovim 0.10
you might want to try linking @variable to Identifier, i think the original author decided to keep @variable unhighlighted to keep the color diff between having `termguicolors` on/off to a minimum (Identifier assumes `termguicolors` is enabled, but for default colorscheme it's likely not always the case).

see https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/26334 and the comments in highlight_group.c

pynappo··on Why the CORDIC algorithm lives rent-free in my head
the "rent" in the saying is the effort to learn and upkeep a certain piece of knowledge in your head, to the point where you can recall it as needed

living rent free generally means that you are able to easily recall a piece of knowledge (and often do, even if you don't want to).

something that pays rent might be like an important concept for an upcoming school test, for a class you're not interested in.

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